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By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa
On the heels of a stakeholders summit held in Yenagoa Tuesday by the interim coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, Col. Miland Dixon Dikio, the leadership of the Movement for the Survival of the Ijaw Ethnic Nationality of the Niger Delta, MOSIEND, has again called on the Amnesty handlers to give account of how much has been approved, budgeted and expended on the programme since its inception.
Speaking with journalists shortly after a strategic meeting with zonal and clan executives, MOSIEND president, Comrade Kenneth Tonjo-West, said that by letting the people of the Niger Delta know how much has been released and expended in prosecuting the programme, the rumours making the rounds, as regards the various sum of monies which were alleged to have been approved but diverted for personal ends by management of the programme, will be put to rest.
According to the MOSIEND leadership, the failure of successive administrations of the Presidential Amnesty Programme was due to a direct neglect of stakeholders who have been in the fore front of bringing lasting peace in the Niger Delta region by the office.
MOSIEND advised the interim management of the programme to prevail on the appropriate federal offices to relieve civil servants currently working in the Presidential Amnesty office of their responsibilities, alleging that the bane of the programme was “the corrupt practices by the unprofessional civil servants who are bent on undoing the programme.”
He assured its members that the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has accepted MOSIEND in its protocol lists and would be accorded attention and carried them along in scheme of things like any other youth-based organizations with “genuine interest in the clamour for change in the narratives of the underdeveloped and marginalized Niger Delta region.”
In another development, the MOSIEND leadership says it is necessary for its members across various clans and zones to go for leadership training and retraining exercise for them to function properly wherever they find themselves.
This, MOSIEND president, Comrade Kenneth Tonjo-West, said was borne out of the desire for the Ijaw group to be different from other ethnic based organizations.
Tonjo-West, reiterated the group’s quest of becoming a pacesetter among sister ethnic based groups in and around the Niger Delta and beyond.
Tonjo-West said to this end, MOSIEND under his leadership would be organising periodic leadership training for members in a bid to inculcate in them up-to-date trends in leadership as well as managerial know-how.
“One of the ways to distinguish MOSIEND from other groups is the regular interactions such as this,” he said.
MOSIEND, our correspondent said, has regularly been in the vanguard of advocacy for justice and proper treatment of the Ijaw people by the Federal Government and multinationals operating in Ijaw land since the creation of Bayelsa State.
Our correspondent also learnt that Tonjo-West is the 9th president of the organisation.
